Re: What directors have made back to back great films?

Michael Curtiz.

He directed YANKEE DOODLE DANDY which was nominated for 8 Oscars and won 3 including Jimmy Cagney for Best Actor and for Best Music. Curtiz himself was nominated for the picture. And the movie got a Best Picture nomination.

His next movie after YANKEE DOODLE DANDY was CASABLANCA for which he won Best Director (and CASABLANCA won Best Picture).

Re: What directors have made back to back great films?

I would say most of these directors works are great but I'll keep this to what the majority deems great And there are some with great movies that were technically back to back but If they directed anything of interest (short or tv or music video) then its void!!

Tarantino- Reservoir Dogs and Pulp FictionOliver Stone (pulled 7 in a row!!)- Salvador, Platoon, Wall Street, Talk Radio, Born on the Fourth of July, The Doors, JFKSergio Leone (4 in a row!!)- A Fistful of Dollars, For A Few Dollars More, The Good The Bad and The Ugly, Once Upon a Time in the WestSidney Lumet- Dog Day Afternoon, NetworkScorsese- Aviator, DepartedKubrick (3 in a row)- Dr. Strangelove, 2001, A Clockwork OrangeHitchcock- Vertigo, North by NorthwestAkira Kurosawa- Ikiru, Seven SamuraiAndrey Tarkovskiy- Andrei Rublev, SolarisSpielberg did it a few times- Jaws then Close Encounters; Raiders then ET; Empire of the Sun then Last Crusade; Jurassic Park then Schindler's ListNolan- Following then Memento; Then 4 in a row with Batman Begins, Prestige, The Dark Knight, InceptionSoderbergh- Traffic, Oceans Eleven

There's lots more this is just what I came up with off the top of my head...